Public Lectures & Talks 

Selected Talks

VASSAR COLLEGE, “A conversation on Free Speech with Media Lawyer and Author Ian Rosenberg,” opening event for Vassar’s Engaged Pluralism 2025 series, February 3, 2025 

NEW YORK COMIC CON, Panel Appearances. Guest panelist on “Political Cartoons as Learning Tools” (2021) and “Fighting Comic Bans with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund” (2024) 

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – EAU CLAIRE / MENARD CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL STUDIES, Class Discussions with Ian Rosenberg, 2021–2024 

GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE, Kenosha, WI, Banned Books Week Guest Speaker Ian Rosenberg, September 24, 2024

FIRE’S FREE SPEECH LEADERSHIP SUMMIT, TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, guest speaker on free speech issues in journalism, June 26, 2024

U.S. VS. COMICS, a 7-part nonfiction web-comic series created by Ian Rosenberg (writer) & Mike Cavallaro (art) on the 1954 U.S. Senate comic book censorship hearings. Created in support of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and hosted on their website. 

NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, “TeenLIVE Author Talks” (March 3, 2022); “Virtual Conversation with author Ian Rosenberg” (Seward Park Library, May 23, 2022); “Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, and the Right to Read” (Tompkins Square Library, November 9, 2023)  

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, “Connecting Library of Congress Primary Sources and Graphic Novels,” conference speaker, October, 30, 2023 

THE WOLFE INSTITUTE, BROOKLYN COLLEGE, “Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Read, Freedom to Learn Series,” a conversation with author Ian Rosenberg and cohosts Brooklyn College Interim Provost April Bedford and Associate Professor Beth Evans, October 2, 2023 

MATTHEWS CENTER FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING, BROOKLYN COLLEGE, “Free Speech Empowers Pedagogy: Keeping the Engine Roaring in the Classroom, the Curriculum and on Library Shelves,” panelist with Nick Higgins, Chief Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library and Brooklyn College Interim Provost April Bedford, October 18, 2022

NIGHT OF IDEAS: Where Are We Going, BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY, Curated by Villa Albertine New York and Brooklyn Public Library (“a free late-night event featuring top public intellectuals”), “Why You Can Cry Fire in a Theater,” a lecture by Ian Rosenberg, May 21, 2022 

EAST END TEMPLE, HELENE SPRING LIBRARY EVENT, speaking on "Mollie Steimer, Jewish Anarchists and Free Speech," March 27, 2022

SUNY MARITIME COLLEGE, STEPHEN B. LUCE LIBRARY LECTURE SERIES, “Ian Rosenberg on The Fight for Free Speech,” April 6, 2021

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN – MADISON, WISCONSIN ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, “Wisconsin Idea Spotlight,” in conversation with Donald Downs (Alexander Meiklejohn Professor of Political Science Emeritus, UW-Madison), March 4, 2021  

THE FIRST AMENDMENT MUSEUM, Speaker Series, interviewed by Gene Policinski, March 4, 2021  

FREEDOM FORUM, “First Five Now: The Fight for Free Speech,” February 11, 2021